The Body Artist

Author: Don DeLillo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743212223
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award–winning author of White Noise and Underworld. Since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American. In The Body Artist his spare, seductive twelfth novel, he inhabits the muted world of Lauren Hartke, an artist whose work defies the limits of the body. Lauren is living on a lonely coast, in a rambling rented house, where she encounters a strange, ageless man, a man with uncanny knowledge of her own life. Together they begin a journey into the wilderness of time, love and human perception. The Body Artist is a haunting, beautiful and profoundly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time.

The Body Artist

Author: Don DeLillo
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9780330484961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
The Body Artist opens with a breakfast scene in a rambling rented house somewhere on the New England coast. We meet Lauren Hartke, the Body Artist of the title, and her husband Rey Robles, a much older, thrice-married film-director. Through their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words DeLillo proves himself a stunningly unsentimental observer of marriage, and of the idiosyncrasies that both isolate and bind us. Rey says he's taking a drive and he does, all the way to the Manhattan apartment of his first wife. Lauren is left alone, or so she thinks . . . 'A poised, individual ghost story for the twenty-first century' Observer 'Inspiring . . . a beautiful book' Independent on Sunday

Body Art/performing the Subject

Author: Amelia Jones
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816627738
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
"With great originality and scholarship, Amelia Jones maps out an extraordinary history of body art over the last three decades and embeds it in the theoretical terrain of postmoderism. The result is a wonderful and permissive space in which the viewer...can wander"...-Moira Roth, Trefethen professor of art history, Mills College.

Body of Art

Author: Phaidon Editors
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714869667
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The first book to celebrate the beautiful and provocative ways artists have represented, scrutinized and utilized the body over centuries. Body of Art is the first book to explore the various ways the human body has been both an inspiration and a medium for artists over hundreds of thousands of years. Unprecedented in its scope, it examines the many different manifestations of the body in art, from Anthony Gormley and Maya Lin sculptures to eight-armed Hindu gods and ancient Greek reliefs, from feminist graphics and Warhol's empty electric chair to the blue-tinted complexion of Singer Sargent's Madame X. It is the most expansive examination of the human body in art, spanning western and non-western, ancient to contemporary, representative to abstract and conceptual. Over 400 artists are featured in chapters that explore identity, beauty, religion, absent body, sex and gender, power, body's limits, abject body and bodies & space. Works range from 11,000 BC hand stencils in Argentine caves to videos and performances by contemporary artists such as Marina Abramovic, Joan Jonas and Bruce Nauman? Its fresh, accessible and dynamic voice brings to life the thrilling diversity of both classical and contemporary art through the prism of the body. More than simply a book of representations, this is an original and thought provoking look at the human body across time, cultures and media.

Customizing the Body

Author: Clinton Sanders
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592138896
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Tattoos as art, work, decoration and defiance.

The Artist's Body

Author: Tracey Warr
Publisher: Phaidon Press
ISBN: 9780714863931
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
A survey of the use of the artist's body in 20th-century art.

The Art of the Body

Author: Alex Allison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780349700762
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Art of Body Acceptance

Author: Ashlee Bennett
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
ISBN: 1645672727
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Make Bad Art. Make Messy Art. Make Art that Heals You, Grounds You and Inspires You to Have More Compassion for Your Body and Yourself. You are inherently creative. Yes, you. Even if you’ve never picked up a paintbrush before, registered art therapist Ashlee Bennett will teach you how to reclaim your creativity and make amends with your body using art. In our image-obsessed society, it’s easy to be bogged down by the negative messaging that you’re not enough, that your creativity and self-expression aren’t “right” and that your body isn’t worthy of love and respect. But Ashlee sees the falsehood in those messages and is here to guide you to a place of greater compassion, acceptance and connection with your body and your inner self. Therapeutic art exercises give you unconditional permission to express yourself. Creating a sensations map helps you connect your body and mind, forming sculptures allows you to represent your inner qualities using clay and making a collage gives you the opportunity to express the way you wish media reflected bodies and appearance. The goal isn’t to create art worthy of a museum or even your refrigerator door—the goal is to use art as a way to reconnect with your body, reject harmful beauty standards enforced by our society and learn that you are worthy of taking up space, just the way you are.

Interactive Art and Embodiment

Author: Nathaniel Stern
Publisher: Gylphi Limited
ISBN: 1780240090
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Nathaniel Stern's 'Interactive Art and Embodiment' defies the world of interactive art and new media from the perspective of the body and identity. It presents the ongoing and emergent processes of embodiment in art and includes immersive descriptions of interactive artworks.

Body Art

Author: Blood Bound Books
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781940250441
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Art comes in many forms... As an undertaker, the human body is Harold's canvas. For Rutger and Kandy, famous porn stars from the 80s, flesh is also their preferred medium of art. When Harold's ex-lovers start arriving in body bags, the undertaker believes he's receiving a message to create a new masterpiece. Rutger and Kandi are also on a mission. Their new task will be to film the most shocking porno imaginable. Toby and Jessica are just recent high school graduates looking for some fun, but their cabin vacation has landed them in the wrong place at the wrong time. All the while, a mysterious red dust surrounds these unique individuals, drawing their worlds together in bizarre and horrifying ways. Yes, art is dangerous, and Body Art is the most deadly of all... Get your copy today! "I never knew something so twisted could turn me on so much!"- Tim Morse of Anal Cunt "Whatever style or mode Triana is writing in, the voice matches it unfailingly... it's a safe bet we'll be seeing his name a lot in the years to come." - Cemetery Dance "Sick and slick-the kind of horror that nests in your belly, making you feel somehow nauseated but complete." - Jessica McHugh, author of The Train Derails in Boston "Kristopher Triana's prose is excellent, his plots compelling. Check out a rising star." - Gene O'Neill, author of The Cal Wild Chronicles "Triana is a builder. He works in rural American grit, spit and the grime scraped from the windows of the soul. He uses that to build horrific and haunted adobe houses for us to cower in. He writes upon the walls and whispers in our ears, sometimes screaming when we seem too calm." - John Boden, author of Jedi Summer